Monday, November 29, 2010

ACT TODAY: FEAR PREVENTS PEOPLE FROM BECOMING MORE

ACT TODAY: FEAR PREVENTS PEOPLE FROM BECOMING MORE: "We all come into this world in the same way. No child is born a nurse , teacher, sweeper, driver golfer or chief executive. We have to do ..."

FEAR PREVENTS PEOPLE FROM BECOMING MORE

We all come into this world in the same way.  No child is born a nurse , teacher, sweeper, driver golfer or chief executive.  We have to do certain things right to become what we want to be.   The Creator in His wisdom made sure that all humans start from the same point, same level.   God did not bring you into this world to do nothing,  and He also did not create some people useful and some useless.  We are all here for a purpose.  However, the question which begs an answer is , How is it that some people become successful while others come to the end of life without having achieved much or anything at all.

FEAR IS OUR GREATEST ENEMY
It is said that we are all born with only two fears:  the fear of following and the fear of loud noises.  What about other fears....where do they originate from?   one can safely conclude that ALL other fears must be learned. It does not take a rocket scientist to know that FEAR is the most debilitating and destructive force on the planet.  Fear causes self-doubt, a state were one does not believe in his/her own abilty to achieve anything worthwhile.  Fear is a crippler, it destroys desires, it weakens motivation...it wispers to you that you can't make things happen in your life.  In the presence of fear, enthusiasm disappears.  Fear is a paralyser.  When fear takes root in your life, it rules your affairs with an iron grip...it robs you of love,joy, peace and creativity.  Fear lowers your confidence, it crushes all dreams , hopes, ambitions and promotes discord, petty jealous, self doubt, discouragments.  Fear brings feelings of inadequacy, insecurity and ultimately FAILURE.

Fearfulness is a horrible thing to live with.  A fearful person is always blaming someone or something for his/her lack of success in life.  Fearful people can't take ACTION TODAY, they procrastinate because of their fear of failure.  Fear takes all power, energy and initiative from them.  I know what I am talking about, I have been there, done that.   My life started to change when I discovered that time was passing me by and I had to get rid of the needless fear and take charge of my life.  Since I made the decision to confront my fears and expose them for what they are,what a huge difference it made on my outlook on life! 

Dr William James, the father of American psychology, once made this statement:  "YOUR BELIEF AT THE BEGINNING OF ANY PROJECT DETERMINES ITS OUTCOME". WOW! how true.  It has been proven  beyond any doubt that the major reason people do not get the results they deserve in their lives, is FEAR.  When you are afraid, you will somehow expect to fail....Dr James was the first to identify this as the Law of Self-Fulfilling Prophecy.  "Be careful of what you expect, because you are probably going to get it!'

SOME OF THE WAYS TO OVERCOME YOUR FEARS
Confront your fear, strip it naked layer by layer and you will find there was nothing there to fear!
Picture what your life would be like when you actualize your goals.
Read books with stories of people who have conquered what you are currently struggling with.
Feel the Fear, and  Do IT ANYWAY!

Finally, take ACTION TODAY to start winning your battle against fear.

Howard Mahere

Friday, November 19, 2010

ACTION TAKER

I have lived long enough to know without an shadow of doubt that ....nothing will ever change in life in the absence of action.  You may know what you want, what you are passionate about but this will not bring results.   Successful people are successful because they started by deciding what they want out of life, visualised what life will be like achieving that goal, and then they took action 'massive action until untill something happened.

Life rewards action takers, we all know that talent is good and we all are blessed with it, we all want knowledge because its a good thing to have, however, knowledge not applied is not good to the one in possession of it and to the generality of the people.  Its true that knowledge is power but only when its put to use. 

The reason why some people seem to do well in life better than others is not their backgounds, education, dreams or goals..NO, NO NO, its the actions that they have taken in their lives.  Knowing what you want will not put food on the table.

One of the reason why some people fail to act is self-doubt and fear, I am not going to dwell very much on what causes fear in this article but I will do so in the next one.  What I can only say is...face what you are afraid of and see what happens, one thing I can assure you is that in my years on this planet earth no one has yet been killed by taking action .  The other thing you should do take action is to start your project with the end result in mind.  Just picture yourself being able to live in that dream house, driving that dream car and being able to live that lifstyle a lot of people only dream about.

I hope this small article will galvanise you into action.

Know What You Want And Take Massive Action. PerioD!

Howard Mahere